Plaintiff Nurimaro Park, 26-year-old resident of Fairfax, Va., speaks during a news conference at the Legal Aid Justice Center in Falls Church, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, to announce that he and plaintiff Jonathan Alvarenga Recinos, 19-year-old resident of Alexandria, Va., have filed a lawsuit seeking to have their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA, reinstated and extended for two years. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - A northern Virginia advocacy group has filed a lawsuit to challenge the Trump administration's decision to end a program protecting some young immigrants from deportation.
The Legal Aid Justice Center held a news conference Tuesday to announce a lawsuit seeking to reinstate protections for two Virginians who had been enrolled in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
That program extended protections for about 800,000 people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children or came with families who overstayed visas. The Trump administration is phasing out the program.
This particular lawsuit focuses on individuals who had been protected under the program but let their renewals lapse.
The Legal Aid Justice Center filed one of the first challenges to the Trump administration's travel ban in January.
Legal Air Justice Center director Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg speaks during a news conference at the Legal Aid Justice Center in Falls Church, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, to announce that plaintiffs Nurimaro Park, 26-year-old resident of Fairfax, Va., and Jonathan Alvarenga Recinos, 19-year-old resident of Alexandria, Va., have filed a lawsuit seeking to have their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA, reinstated and extended for two years. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Legal Air Justice Center director Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, left, and plaintiff Nurimaro Park, 26-year-old resident of Fairfax, Va., right, pause during a news conference at the Legal Aid Justice Center in Falls Church, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, to announce that Park and plaintiff Jonathan Alvarenga Recinos, 19-year-old resident of Alexandria, Va., have filed a lawsuit seeking to have their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA, reinstated and extended for two years. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Legal Air Justice Center director Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, left, joined by plaintiff Nurimaro Park, 26-year-old resident of Fairfax, Va., right, speaks during a news conference at the Legal Aid Justice Center in Falls Church, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, to announce that Park and plaintiff Jonathan Alvarenga Recinos, 19-year-old resident of Alexandria, Va., have filed a lawsuit seeking to have their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA, reinstated and extended for two years. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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